Schindler's list

Pour Paul Marco, en guise de clin d'œil amical
Oskar Schindler was born in 1908. Raised a Catholic, Schindler was a German industrialist who had a lucrative factory in Poland. He hired many Jews from the ghetto because they were cheap labor.

When he saws Jews being sent to death camps, Schindler found ways to protect his workers using, as one of his biographers describes, “bribery, black marketing and lies.”

As the liquidation of Jews escalated in 1944, Schindler (to protect his people) transferred his entire workforce to Czechoslovakia, giving the Nazis his famous “list” of workers who were needed to produce goods, supposedly for the German war effort. He spent his entire saving to keep this bogus operation going until the war ended.

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